There is one place it might work: Vertical Trailer Parks.
This guy seems to think you could sell it with custom trailer modules.
But I think it could be done much cheaper, and accept current trailer models, with just a steel infrastructure and some large (frame traveling) lift facility. With 3 or 4 feet of crawl space between floors to deal with plumbing, gas and electric, you could stack them three to 8 stories high with no problem, and even supply a balcony walk way for those models that have doors on both sides.
They still haven't figured out how to build a home you can get a couch, fridge, or other appliances into without needing 4 guys and lots of padding on the walls.
Build the unit around the Fridge. Want a new fridge, order a new kitchen.
You scoff? Try to replace some random part in your dishwasher like the soap dispenser. Not sold without entire sub-assembly.
For example, a hotel could switch out a small bathroom in a guest room for a larger one that comes to the room along the outside façade of the building.
I just don't see this working, or being something anyone wants. At least not in a hotel.
Sounds like you give up your window view when a bigger bathroom gets bolted onto your room. Do these things play leap frog, or what? How does it get to your room, especially if someone on the same X-Y coordinates also requested a big bathroom? And when your massive bulging throne blocks the view of an adjacent room, does no one bitch? I'm not convinced all of the plumbing issues could be handled simply. (or aesthetically - I envision an accumulation of stains on the facade over the decades).
Don't get me wrong, I think something like this might work, but not for whimsical things like wanting a two seater and tub instead of shower.
I can see buildings becoming an infrastructure of sockets, into which you plug various modals depending on the needs of individual renters. Shop for them in show-rooms, delivered in two days. These aren't going to be automatically sliding along your exterior facade, they will arrive by truck, from off site storage/prep site, and would be scissor jacked (or craned) into position and slid into the number of sockets the apartment owner rented. Probably not doable in much above 3 or 4 floors high, just due to the risk involved. Construction would have to be very light-weight and modular with standardized connectors for water, gas, electrical and sewer. (Translation: A vertical Trailer-Park. Forget about marble facilities, granite counters, and tile floors).
Changes would be a big deal. Probably taking an entire day in the best of cases. When people move, they might literally "move house" as the British say, and take their existing dwelling with them to a different socket structure.
But that would only work for apartments and condos, and perhaps offices, where people stay for an extended period of time, and it would not be convenient or cheap to change out parts. Pre-fab doesn't work as well as most people like to believe.
Did he mention Obama, or was that a revealing slip on your part? I'm assuming the latter, and its good to know you understand where the problem is, even if you can't bring yourself to admit it in public.
I imagine that driverless cars will honk quite frequently, just to be on the safe side. They will be able to communicate silently to other car 2.0s but the old style drivers and the pedestrians will need warnings that there is a car that they might not be aware of.
Liability worries will probably make that the norm.
Who will dare sell a car that does not give the same warning that a conscientious driver might? There will be people diving in front of driverless cars attempting to empty the deep pockets of the manufacturers.
Still, the car ought to be able to tell that someone is there, standing or walking toward the street.
After all, the noise was demanded because there were drivers in silent electric cars, and the cars had no smarts to tell them about their surroundings. Driver-less cars will have cameras and radars and should be able to make noise only when appropriate. Of course, appropriate means everywhere on a busy city street, so a huge racket thrown up by otherwise quiet cars.
It would be cheaper to offer free pocket car sensors to every blind person, than to inflict that noise on everyone.
Everybody seems to think the maker for programmers revolves around game development or writing yet another version of some cockamamie scripting language. They look for people who can create the next Doom game engine, or re-write the current one to drive and assembly line or something.
Then they hire these people to keep an in-house accounting system running, or do maintenance on some software product that they sell, and (far less frequently) to design and build something totally new.
The guy reading every new text about programming and fiddling with every new programming language will sooner or later end up using YOUR project as a proving ground for HIS passion. Soon you have an maintainable mess, and he moves on to another job.
For most work in this industry (any software industry), pride of craftsmanship is worth a great deal more than passion.
I quite frankly don't care what he does on the weekends, and the fly fisherman will arrive back at work Monday morning more refreshed, and with fresh insights (there is a lot of time to think while waiting for fish to commit suicide). That vexing problem and that horribly complex chunk of code will end up being well handled and properly structured, simplified, before it is actually written, and documented, and tested, because the pride of authorship won't allow anything else.
Meanwhile the guy coding up his own game engine nights and weekends burns himself out, arrives with a fried brain, and your project suffers.
Not saying that a healthy interest in programming techniques and after hours involvement in coding projects are bad. Just that they aren't actually necessary for a long and successful career, and aren't always going to be all that helpful to the employer, and the employer should be looking for traits more suitable for the job at hand.
If that job involves new game development, or writing new code to drive your computerized plant automation system, you probably want an experimenter. If the job involves security issues you want the paranoid. If it involves inventory or money or scheduling or sales or bean counting you want the guy that writes the cleanest code.
Well there is a whole lot of car hackers out there, some of which write better ECM software than the guys in Detroit. They would have found it by now. Nobody has found a verified case of Boston brakes yet, but that hasn't stopped the rumors.
Nah, just need to keep notes on where you put things. Have the location of the notes tattooed on your left wrist. Have the words ”other wrist ” tattooed on your right wrist.
Don't worry, it will come to you tomorrow morning. I've been known to blurt out answers to three day old questions, and have my geezer friends nod in agreement as if no time had passed. Its hard to dig up a single nugget from under under that pile of tailings I've accumulated over the years.
Do I have to put up with unreasonable societal expectations and laughter just because of my headgear?
Well maybe you should have told him you wouldn't need to wear them if he had a single clue about proper office decorum and professional behavior in the work place. Wiping out your phone and snapping someones picture and posting it on facebook is rude at best horribly un professional, and could land you flat on your backside in some places I've worked.
Its so sad your role model is a fictional TV character to which you attribute all these marvelous characteristics. Meanwhile my neighbor down the street's daughter flies F16s, she was bored with her Cessna 172 by the age of 15.
You sit around and admire fictional characters all day. Maybe that's the reason people don't think there are jobs in STEM for women, because the ones interested in those jobs are already quietly doing them, and not seeking inspiration from a TV show.
It only takes a FEW cars disabled in key intersections to plug city streets. Police could do this, or criminals could do it keep police away from the bank heist (or what ever). Or the mythical terrorists, I suppose.
Its bad enough when Obama visits any town in the US and shuts the the airport and motorcade route down for nothing but a political fundraiser. Can you imagine this technology loose in wild?
I guarantee if this gets passed in the EU it will arrive in the US in short order. Every time there is a police chase anywhere, there will be a hue and cry from the usual useful idiots lobbying for this on all cars.
For snow, pre-treatment is preferable to plowing, because with even modest traffic, the roads will stay clear and you won't have to plow.
For Atlanta, a great deal is made of not having plows, and not wanting to buy them.
But pre-treatment can be done with bolt on (or drive under) spreaders that fit on the back of existing city owned trucks or hired dump trucks.
The best pre-treatment isn't rock salt these days. Most places with other than than freeze-solid temperatures opt for deicer liquids sprayed on the road from small tanker trucks, of the kind that are already in many city inventories, or which can be pulled by any Semi-tractor. Atlanta only has to look as far north as Virginia to see how its done.
You don't need special trucks, you need attachments for existing equipment. The tankers can be multi-purpose, delivering water for fire-fighting needs away from hydrants, flushing streets, etc. The sand/salt spreaders come in sized for pick-ups all the way up to dump truck size. You literally back your truck up under one of these and lower it into the bed. Any truck. Not a special truck.
You also don't need dedicated trucks to plow. Even in northers heavy snow country , they bolt plows onto standard highway department dump trucks, and keep the main highways clear. Its rather impressive to see a gang of plows, usually 3 to 6, running down the freeway, at speed, in a diagonal phalanx clearing three or 4 lanes at once. They are just dump trucks, with heavy duty mounts on the front and hydraulics for lifting. Often with a drive-under sander in the box. They use the same trucks all year around for other purposes.
Google removed the api, but not because it was something they wanted to prevent. The API was done in a hackish way that could cause more security issues than it solved.
I expect Google will install an after-the-fact fined grained permissions control in a future Android versions, that will allow you to turn off access for apps that are permission greedy. If you prevent access to some information, an installed app may fail, but that is preferable to the blanket installation time approval system we have today.
However, I was a terrible programmer until I learned some of the core techniques and disciplines in college
Everybody is a terrible programmer until they learn a better way. But those better ways are forced on them by bigger projects, almost universally on the job. Nobody comes out of a programming course ready to write the next inventory management system for a multi-national corporation.
Every carpenter started as a terrible hack with a hammer in one hand and scrap wood in the other. The dog house was crap, but the kid was only 9.
If a hammer and nails were never among the "toys" available, the spatula at Burger King might be all that kid ever learns to swing.
This was like someone going to a Hindu place of worship and trying to serve prime rib. Would you be impressed?
I would be impressed, and even more so f they pulled if off. Hindus aren't so ignorant to demand everyone else believe their beliefs, or live their life styles. You are more likely Steakhouses in India than Bacon in Saudi Arabia.
Every geek who is interested in programming taught themselves.
Yes, I don't know why this was mentioned either.
But perhaps its instructive that she thought this was somehow different for her, than it was for any other person learning to program.
Maybe it is indicative of the root of the problem, and that problem is that young women learn very early to EXPECT to have knowledge handed to them instead of digging it out by themselves. Why is this?
Give your daughters a soldering iron or chemistry set or microscope for Christmas. She's had enough princess dolls already. Give her a tool set, Let her take stuff apart. Even if it was a perfectly good clock radio or toaster, or a seldom used printer. Grandmas are the worst offenders in this regard. Dremel tool, Grandma, not another Dream Big doll.
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There is one place it might work: Vertical Trailer Parks.
This guy seems to think you could sell it with custom trailer modules.
But I think it could be done much cheaper, and accept current trailer models, with just a steel infrastructure and some large (frame traveling) lift facility. With 3 or 4 feet of crawl space between floors to deal with plumbing, gas and electric, you could stack them three to 8 stories high with no problem, and even supply a balcony walk way for those models that have doors on both sides.
Solution: Don't use the mobile site.
Move along now.
They still haven't figured out how to build a home you can get a couch, fridge, or other appliances into without needing 4 guys and lots of padding on the walls.
Build the unit around the Fridge. Want a new fridge, order a new kitchen.
You scoff? Try to replace some random part in your dishwasher like the soap dispenser. Not sold without entire sub-assembly.
What about homes for people?
For example, a hotel could switch out a small bathroom in a guest room for a larger one that comes to the room along the outside façade of the building.
I just don't see this working, or being something anyone wants. At least not in a hotel.
Sounds like you give up your window view when a bigger bathroom gets bolted onto your room.
Do these things play leap frog, or what? How does it get to your room, especially if someone on the same X-Y coordinates also requested a big bathroom?
And when your massive bulging throne blocks the view of an adjacent room, does no one bitch?
I'm not convinced all of the plumbing issues could be handled simply. (or aesthetically - I envision an accumulation of stains on the facade over the decades).
Don't get me wrong, I think something like this might work, but not for whimsical things like wanting a two seater and tub instead of shower.
I can see buildings becoming an infrastructure of sockets, into which you plug various modals depending on the needs of individual renters. Shop for them in show-rooms, delivered in two days. These aren't going to be automatically sliding along your exterior facade, they will arrive by truck, from off site storage/prep site, and would be scissor jacked (or craned) into position and slid into the number of sockets the apartment owner rented. Probably not doable in much above 3 or 4 floors high, just due to the risk involved. Construction would have to be very light-weight and modular with standardized connectors for water, gas, electrical and sewer. (Translation: A vertical Trailer-Park. Forget about marble facilities, granite counters, and tile floors).
Changes would be a big deal. Probably taking an entire day in the best of cases. When people move, they might literally "move house" as the British say, and take their existing dwelling with them to a different socket structure.
But that would only work for apartments and condos, and perhaps offices, where people stay for an extended period of time, and it would not be convenient or cheap to change out parts. Pre-fab doesn't work as well as most people like to believe.
Did he mention Obama, or was that a revealing slip on your part?
I'm assuming the latter, and its good to know you understand where the problem is, even if you can't bring yourself to admit it in public.
Seriously, who modded this troll?
If you can't see the parallels, you are willfully blind.
I imagine that driverless cars will honk quite frequently, just to be on the safe side. They will be able to communicate silently to other car 2.0s but the old style drivers and the pedestrians will need warnings that there is a car that they might not be aware of.
Liability worries will probably make that the norm.
Who will dare sell a car that does not give the same warning that a conscientious driver might?
There will be people diving in front of driverless cars attempting to empty the deep pockets of the manufacturers.
Still, the car ought to be able to tell that someone is there, standing or walking toward the street.
After all, the noise was demanded because there were drivers in silent electric cars, and the cars had no smarts to tell them about their surroundings.
Driver-less cars will have cameras and radars and should be able to make noise only when appropriate. Of course, appropriate means everywhere on a busy city street, so a huge racket thrown up by otherwise quiet cars.
It would be cheaper to offer free pocket car sensors to every blind person, than to inflict that noise on everyone.
Everybody seems to think the maker for programmers revolves around game development or writing yet another version of some cockamamie scripting language. They look for people who can create the next Doom game engine, or re-write the current one to drive and assembly line or something.
Then they hire these people to keep an in-house accounting system running, or do maintenance on some software product that they sell, and (far less frequently) to design and build something totally new.
The guy reading every new text about programming and fiddling with every new programming language will sooner or later end up using YOUR project as a proving ground for HIS passion. Soon you have an maintainable mess, and he moves on to another job.
For most work in this industry (any software industry), pride of craftsmanship is worth a great deal more than passion.
I quite frankly don't care what he does on the weekends, and the fly fisherman will arrive back at work Monday morning more refreshed, and with fresh insights (there is a lot of time to think while waiting for fish to commit suicide). That vexing problem and that horribly complex chunk of code will end up being well handled and properly structured, simplified, before it is actually written, and documented, and tested, because the pride of authorship won't allow anything else.
Meanwhile the guy coding up his own game engine nights and weekends burns himself out, arrives with a fried brain, and your project suffers.
Not saying that a healthy interest in programming techniques and after hours involvement in coding projects are bad. Just that they aren't actually necessary for a long and successful career, and aren't always going to be all that helpful to the employer, and the employer should be looking for traits more suitable for the job at hand.
If that job involves new game development, or writing new code to drive your computerized plant automation system, you probably want an experimenter. If the job involves security issues you want the paranoid. If it involves inventory or money or scheduling or sales or bean counting you want the guy that writes the cleanest code.
One size doesn't fit all.
Well there is a whole lot of car hackers out there, some of which write better ECM software than the guys in Detroit. They would have found it by now.
Nobody has found a verified case of Boston brakes yet, but that hasn't stopped the rumors.
Nah, just need to keep notes on where you put things.
Have the location of the notes tattooed on your left wrist.
Have the words ”other wrist ” tattooed on your right wrist.
Don't worry, it will come to you tomorrow morning.
I've been known to blurt out answers to three day old questions, and have my geezer friends nod in agreement as if no time had passed.
Its hard to dig up a single nugget from under under that pile of tailings I've accumulated over the years.
Do I have to put up with unreasonable societal expectations and laughter just because of my headgear?
Well maybe you should have told him you wouldn't need to wear them if he had a single clue about proper office decorum and
professional behavior in the work place. Wiping out your phone and snapping someones picture and posting it on facebook is rude at best
horribly un professional, and could land you flat on your backside in some places I've worked.
Its so sad your role model is a fictional TV character to which you attribute all these marvelous characteristics.
Meanwhile my neighbor down the street's daughter flies F16s, she was bored with her Cessna 172 by the age of 15.
You sit around and admire fictional characters all day.
Maybe that's the reason people don't think there are jobs in STEM for women, because the ones
interested in those jobs are already quietly doing them, and not seeking inspiration from a TV show.
Yeah, not quite the same thing.
That one fills your living room.
The scent watch just looks ridiculous on your wrist.
You'd be tempted to believe that, till you clicked the Sat View button or zoomed in closer and had Google Streetview pop up
Then there is all of that utterly useless forest of links down the side of the Openstreetmap page.
What the hell is the DM?
I posted a google search, that will find all sorts of hits.
Is the BBC ok for you? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...
Or do you have to hear this from God himself?
I wouldn't believe the Daily Mail if they told me I had a hole in my arse
Well apparently having your head up your arse qualifies you as having no hole any more.
It the time it to you to post your little AC triumphant drivel you could have searched for other sources.
https://www.google.com/search?...
It only takes a FEW cars disabled in key intersections to plug city streets.
Police could do this, or criminals could do it keep police away from the bank heist (or what ever).
Or the mythical terrorists, I suppose.
Its bad enough when Obama visits any town in the US and shuts the the airport and motorcade route down
for nothing but a political fundraiser. Can you imagine this technology loose in wild?
I guarantee if this gets passed in the EU it will arrive in the US in short order. Every time there is
a police chase anywhere, there will be a hue and cry from the usual useful idiots lobbying for this on
all cars.
For snow, pre-treatment is preferable to plowing, because with even modest traffic, the roads will stay clear and you won't have to plow.
For Atlanta, a great deal is made of not having plows, and not wanting to buy them.
But pre-treatment can be done with bolt on (or drive under) spreaders that fit on the back of existing city owned trucks or hired dump trucks.
The best pre-treatment isn't rock salt these days. Most places with other than than freeze-solid temperatures opt for deicer liquids sprayed on the road from small tanker trucks, of the kind that are already in many city inventories, or which can be pulled by any Semi-tractor. Atlanta only has to look as far north as Virginia to see how its done.
You don't need special trucks, you need attachments for existing equipment. The tankers can be multi-purpose, delivering water for fire-fighting needs away from hydrants, flushing streets, etc. The sand/salt spreaders come in sized for pick-ups all the way up to dump truck size. You literally back your truck up under one of these and lower it into the bed. Any truck. Not a special truck.
You also don't need dedicated trucks to plow. Even in northers heavy snow country , they bolt plows onto standard highway department dump trucks, and keep the main highways clear. Its rather impressive to see a gang of plows, usually 3 to 6, running down the freeway, at speed, in a diagonal phalanx clearing three or 4 lanes at once. They are just dump trucks, with heavy duty mounts on the front and hydraulics for lifting. Often with a drive-under sander in the box. They use the same trucks all year around for other purposes.
Google removed the api, but not because it was something they wanted to prevent.
The API was done in a hackish way that could cause more security issues than it solved.
I expect Google will install an after-the-fact fined grained permissions control in a future Android versions, that will allow you to turn off access for apps that are permission greedy. If you prevent access to some information, an installed app may fail, but that is preferable to the blanket installation time approval system we have today.
I don't know personally deal with ions on computers, but I'm pretty sure there are computer jobs in chemistry that deal with ions.
There are also a lot of computer jobs in the television industry.
The sad part is those people living and learning life through TV shows.
However, I was a terrible programmer until I learned some of the core techniques and disciplines in college
Everybody is a terrible programmer until they learn a better way. But those better ways are forced on them by bigger projects, almost universally on the job. Nobody comes out of a programming course ready to write the next inventory management system for a multi-national corporation.
Every carpenter started as a terrible hack with a hammer in one hand and scrap wood in the other. The dog house was crap, but the kid was only 9.
If a hammer and nails were never among the "toys" available, the spatula at Burger King might be all that kid ever learns to swing.
This was like someone going to a Hindu place of worship and trying to serve prime rib. Would you be impressed?
I would be impressed, and even more so f they pulled if off. Hindus aren't so ignorant to demand everyone else believe their beliefs, or live their life styles. You are more likely Steakhouses in India than Bacon in Saudi Arabia.
Every geek who is interested in programming taught themselves.
Yes, I don't know why this was mentioned either.
But perhaps its instructive that she thought this was somehow different for her, than it was for any other person learning to program.
Maybe it is indicative of the root of the problem, and that problem is that young women learn very early to EXPECT to have knowledge handed to them instead of digging it out by themselves. Why is this?
Give your daughters a soldering iron or chemistry set or microscope for Christmas. She's had enough princess dolls already. Give her a tool set, Let her take stuff apart. Even if it was a perfectly good clock radio or toaster, or a seldom used printer.
Grandmas are the worst offenders in this regard. Dremel tool, Grandma, not another Dream Big doll.